Nonlinear coupling between cortical oscillations and muscle activity during isotonic wrist flexion

Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience

Volumn 10, Issue DEC, 2016, Pages

  Yang, Yuan ^a   Solis Escalante, Teodoro ^a   van de Ruit, Mark ^a   van der Helm, Frans C T ^a   Schouten, Alfred C ^a,b  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Corticomuscular coupling; EEG; EMG; Nonlinear coherence; Sensorimotor system

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATION ANALYSIS; BRAIN; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; INDEPENDENT COMPONENT ANALYSIS; MUSCLE; SENSORY FEEDBACK;

CORTICO-MUSCULAR COHERENCES; CROSSFREQUENCY COUPLINGS (CFC); ELECTRO-ENCEPHALOGRAM (EEG); EQUIVALENT CURRENT DIPOLE; INDEPENDENT COMPONENT ANALYSES (ICA); NONLINEAR COHERENCE; POSTERIOR PARIETAL CORTICES; SENSORIMOTOR SYSTEMS;

NEURONS;

ASSOCIATION CORTEX; CROSS COUPLING REACTION; DIENCEPHALON; DIPOLE; ELECTROMYOGRAM; INDEPENDENT COMPONENT ANALYSIS; MUSCLE FUNCTION; OSCILLATION; POSTERIOR PARIETAL CORTEX; SENSORY FEEDBACK; STIMULUS; SUPPLEMENTARY MOTOR AREA; WRIST;

EID: 85007447771     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16625188     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fncom.2016.00126     Document Type: Article

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